Operation Billiards - Mitrokhin or Oshchenko ?
Blog URL http://parellic.blogspot.com
Located Southend-on-Sea, Essex United Kingdom
Personal blog of Michael John Smith, convicted of espionage under the Official Secrets Act. Other spy cases are covered and related political issues such as Freedom of Information and faults in the Law.
Latest Blog Posts
- Download the book Open Secret by Stella Rimington on Apr 18, 2009
I have been sent a couple of links where Stella Rimington's autobiography "Open Secret" can be downloaded. If you have not read it it is worth reading to see just what she has got up to in her life.Go here for an English language version or here if y...
- My job application to EMI Electronics in 1976 on Apr 12, 2009
I was asked at my trial whether I had lied on my application form in order to get a job at EMI Electronics (Feltham), which gave me access to secret material. I stressed that I had not lied, but the impression was given in court that I had deceived E...
- Michelle Obama at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School on Apr 3, 2009
I heard on the news yesterday about the big event when Michelle Obama visited a girl's school. It was only today that I realised that it was the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson School in Islington.I suppose it is no big deal that Mrs Obama would visit a s...
- News Release about Tommaso Buscetta on Mar 25, 2009
Giovanni di Stefano has sent me a News release about this case, which is printed below.Tommaso Buscetta was born on the 13th July 1928 in Palermo, Sicily. He ‘died’ on the 2nd April 2000 in New York. The cause of death was said to be ‘cancer’...
- Challenging Dame Stella Rimington about her lies on Mar 23, 2009 in Dame Stella Rimington legal Random House
This morning I sent off an e-mail to Chrissie Schwartz at Random House, issuing a challenge to both Dame Stella Rimington and Random House to come clean over the lies that Rimington was responsible for at my trial in 1993. It will be interesting to s...
- Sir Derek Spencer continues to lie about evidence at spy trial on Mar 20, 2009
I am astonished how Sir Derek Spencer shows no shame at the way he promoted false evidence to be used to gain my conviction at the trial in 1993, but he continues to push these lies on his chambers website.It is quite disgusting to see a man of his r...
- Dame Stella Rimington confronted about courtroom fiction on Mar 4, 2009
Dame Stella Rimington visited the Perth International Festival of Arts in Australia on 26 February 2009. She gave a talk there which has been issued as a podcast on ABC Radio.At first Tony Holland discussed my case with a couple of Stella Rimington's...
